TM1 applications are folders which contains the shortcuts of various other TM1 objects. They’re created just to keep (shortcuts of) a related group of objects at one place.

For example, if you may have one application for all Sales related objects (sales related cubes, processes, dimensions and reports)

Types

There are 3 types of application shortcuts that you can use:

TM1 Objects – You can give reference to TM1 objects. For example, cubes, dimensions, views, processes etc.
Files – You can create shortcuts for any type of file for example, MS excel, MS word or text files.
URLs – You can create links to other websites such as a shortcut/link to ibm.com

NOTE – It’s important to understand that you create just the shortcuts in TM1 applications not the actual objects. So, if you delete a shortcut from application, the corresponding cube will NOT be deleted.

Creating TM1 Applications

Launch your Architect. Login to your TM1Beginner application server. Expand nodes, right click Applications and click Create New Application.

A folder with name ‘New Folder’ will be created with lock key sign on the icon. It means that this is a private folder and only you can see it. Let’s rename it to Sales.

First go to View in Architect menu options and ensure that Properties window is selected (check marked).

Select Sales application. Its properties window will be shown at the right side.

Creating objects shortcuts

Now expand the cubes node, drag Products2 cube and drop it in the properties window of Sales application.

Doing this will create a shortcut of Products2 cube under Sales folder. Open your Products2 cube and rearrange the dimensions in subsequent order and save the view with name “Data Input”.

Again, select the Sales application and drag and drop this view (data input) into properties window of application. Doing so will create a shortcut of Data Input view in Sales application. Rename the shortcut as “Sales Data Input”

Expand processes and add the process LoadDataToProducts2 to Sales application.

Creating Files Shortcuts

Right click on Sales application and click Add File…

An add file dialog will open. Go to your TM1Beginner’s InputFile folder and select data.csv file. In the left bottom of this dialog, there is an option to copy the file to TM1 server. Select that. Click Open. File will be added to the application.

Creating URLs

Right click on Sales application and click Add URL…

Subsequent dialog will open. Mention the website URL and name in the box and click OK.

After creating all above shortcuts, your application will look like this:

Make TM1 application Public

Now right click on application and go to Security > Make Public. Now the application is public and available for all to see.

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Introduction to Cognos TM1

Concepts of Multi-dimensional OLAP database
Cognos TM1 Installation
TM1 Servers and Services
TM1 Workflow
TM1 User Interfaces
Turbo Integrator

Cognos TM1 Configuration

Managing TM1 Components and Tasks
Operations on TM1 Servers: Start, Stop and adding TM1 Servers
TM1 Web, Applications and Operations Console
Using Command prompt create or delete Desktop/Windows services
Hands On

Creating Dimensions

Manual creation of Dimensions
Create Product Dimensions and Measure Dimensions
Dynamic Subset Creation
Sparse and Dense Dimensions
Using Turbo Integrator ETL create cubes, review Cubes and Dimensions
Create Subset, assign Subset, Dimensional Manipulation
Performance Monitoring
Control Cubes
TM1 Web and Rules in TM1
Cube related attributes, dimension related attributes
Hands On

Building Cubes and Views

Building Cubes
Building Views
Bulk Load Mode
Creating Data Source through TM1 Turbo Integrator
Hands On

TM1 Security

Various security levels including Server level, Cube level, Dimension level
Concepts of Security in TM1
Creation of Client & Group and access privileges
Cube Level Security
Hands On

TM1 Data Spreading

TM1 Data Spreading and Recreating dimension
Attributes element types
Cube control elements
Dimension elements
Drill Assignment rules
Trace a feeder and feed strings
Hands On

Cognos TM1 Rules

Understanding TM1 rules
TM1 Rules Editor and Rules compilation using functions
Rule performance optimization
Element information rules functions
Cube manipulation Turbo Integrator functions
D-type in TM1
ELCOMP & ELISCOMP Functions
ELISPAR & ELWEIGHT Functions
Hands On

Advanced Scripting with Turbo Integrator

Advanced Scripting with Turbo Integrator
Deploying Dimension subsets and attributes
Editing procedures using scripts
Hands On

Advanced Modelling Techniques

Significance of advanced modelling
Manually adding objects to application design
Understanding application views, dimensions and hierarchy
Virtual cubes, Lookup cubes and spread profile cube
Hands On

TM1 Application Web

TM1 Web Applications
Creating TM1 Application
Working with TM1 Application Web
Snapshots in TM1 application
Adding MDX filters and Action button properties
Active forms, TM1 user and data formatting range
Hands On

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